IT Operations

Author: Stuart Scott; Difficulty: Intermediate; Duration: 11 minutes and 59 seconds; Content Topics: Security; This course has: 3 Units

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Intermediate; Duration: 33 minutes and 2 seconds; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This course has: 1 Unit

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Using Chef Solo on Windows for Azure: Refine your Chef and desired state configuration skills as you configure an Azure Windows VM with this Chef Solo Lab!; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 20 minutes; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This hands-on lab has: 8 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Refine your Chef and desired state configuration skills as you configure a Linux virtual machine in Azure in this using Chef Solo on Linux Lab!; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Microsoft Azure; This hands-on lab has: 9 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Terraform is a popular IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. When working with Terraform, your resources are codified within Terraform templates, which should be version controlled within a source control system such as Git. In this Lab scenario, you'll learn how to use both Terraform and Git to manage and maintain resources launched within AWS.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Stefano Cascavilla; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this lab, you will use the Serverless Framework to build and deploy a CRUD microservice, and a DynamoDB table the microservice will use to store and retrieve data.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Serverless; This hands-on lab has: 4 Lab steps

Author: Calculated Systems; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Build a web server using Go and learn how to efficiently containerize it with Docker in this lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Development; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Calculated Systems; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Build a command line utility using Go and containerize it with Docker in this Lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Development; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Stefano Cascavilla; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this lab, you will clone a git repo that contains a simple docker application, you will set up a cloud build configuration, and you will run the cloud build configuration you defined.; Duration: Up to 40 minutes; Content Topics: Development, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. Learn how to install and configure Spinnaker, and then setup build pipelines to deploy a simple web application into staging and production Kubernetes clusters.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 12 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: This Docker Windows container playground provides full access to a Windows Docker host. The playground is a safe and secure sandbox environment for you to explore your own ideas, follow along with Cloud Academy courses, or answer your own questions.; Duration: Up to 2 hours; Content Topics: Development, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Beginner; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, Compute, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 7 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Beginner; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Jun Fritz; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to deploy an Amazon ECS cluster into an existing Amazon VPC using Terraform in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 45 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to scan container images for known vulnerabilities using Trivy in this lab.; Duration: Up to 30 minutes; Content Topics: Security vulnerabilities, threats and countermeasures, Containers; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: The AWS Load Balancer Controller is used to help manage and control the provisioning of ALBs (Ingress resources) and NLBs (Service resources - type LoadBalancer). You'll learn how to deploy the AWS Load Balancer Controller into EKS, and then deploy and publicly expose a Web app and TCP app within the cluster.; Duration: Up to 2 hours and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 12 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: In this Lab scenario, you'll learn how to reconfigure an EKS cluster to utilize Cilium as its CNI provider.; Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 8 Lab steps

Author: Logan Rakai; Difficulty: Intermediate; Description: Learn how to configure Vault to use your organization's LDAP identities and groups for authentication without duplicating usernames, passwords, or memberships.; Duration: Up to 45 minutes; Content Topics: Development, DevOps, Security; This hands-on lab has: 9 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Test your Amazon Data Firehose and Amazon CloudWatch logs skills in this hands-on challenge where you are tasked with building out a logging solution.; Duration: Up to 50 minutes; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This lab challenge has: 2 Lab steps

Author: Andrew Burchill; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn to how to centralize storage of your Amazon CloudWatch Logs using Amazon Kinesis and Amazon S3 in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Amazon Web Services; This hands-on lab has: 5 Lab steps

Author: Jeremy Cook; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to migrate an x86 application to an Arm-based application running on AWS Graviton in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 1 hour; Content Topics: Compute; This hands-on lab has: 6 Lab steps

Author: Jun Fritz; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Configure and utilize reusable Google Cloud Platform infrastructure with the help of Terraform modules in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 30 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps

Author: Jun Fritz; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to define and retrieve variables in a Terraform configuration to aid in the deployment of Google Cloud Platform resources in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 45 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 4 Lab steps

Author: Jun Fritz; Difficulty: Beginner; Description: Learn how to create and manage implicit Google Cloud Platform resource dependencies with Terraform in this hands-on lab.; Duration: Up to 30 minutes; Content Topics: Deployment, DevOps; This hands-on lab has: 3 Lab steps